Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Salman Rushdie said in an interview that reform would guarantee Muslims’ accession to the modern era, criticizing top clerics and shaykhs for dragging their feet over the reform of Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
The concept of ‘terrorism’ is still indefinable. The term ‘roots of terrorism’ is even more ambiguous. It has thus become very easy to link terrorism to Islam and to claim that the ‘roots of terrorism’ find a suitable environment in Islam, or in Islamic fundamentalism, as a deviation from the true...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Muhammad Bouwīrī, a Dutch-born dual Moroccan-Dutch citizen, who is accused of murdering Theo Van Gogh, confessed to killing the Dutch filmmaker in the Amsterdam Court last Tuesday.
Date of source: Tuesday, July 5, 2005
In one of the three books reviewed on page 17 of this issue of al-Qāhira newspaper, Shaykh Yousuf al-Qaradāwī says he is one of the defenders of the Umayyad Dynasty, first among them the founder Mu‘āwiya Ibn Abī Sufyān.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
The French magazine Science et Vie [Science and Life] has proven the shroud exhibited in Torino and claimed to be the one in which the body of the Christ was wrapped after his crucifixion, to be fake.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
‘Abd al-Hamīd Qutb, General Manager of engineering sector, says that the reconstruction project of the monastery of Anbā Antonius cost L.E.36, 000,000. The project includes maintaining the monastery buildings, constructive reinforcement for the mill and the oil press, the water wheel and the Bishop...
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There is a strong relation between Richard Sothorne’s Soura al-Islām fī Uoroubā fī al-‘Usour al-Wousta [Image of Islam in Medieval Europe] and Ibrāhīm al-Qadrī’s Bayn Akhlāqīyyāt al-‘Arab wa Dhhinīyāt al-Gharb [Arab mentalities and Western Thoughts].
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
The book of Yacqoub Nakhla “Tārīkh al-Umma al-Qiptīya” [History of The Coptic Nation] is a Coptic testimony dedicated to those who sold themselves to the Zionists and the Americans, to those who speak about liberating Egypt from Arabism and Islam.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
A French university council meets next October to discuss the hijāb issue inside colleges in the aftermath of a recent decision by the University of Paris X-Nanterre, one of the most famous in France, to have hijāb-wearing students inspected during exams.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Muslim conquests have liberated lands and conscience and that is why Muslims entered those fierce battles against the Byzantine and Roman occupation armies that suppressed the east for 10 centuries – from Alexander the Great (356-324 BC) to Heraclius (610-641).